harbor porpoise


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Noun1.harbor porpoise - the common porpoise of the northern Atlantic and Pacificharbor porpoise - the common porpoise of the northern Atlantic and Pacific
herring hog, Phocoena phocoena
porpoise - any of several small gregarious cetacean mammals having a blunt snout and many teeth
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ABSTRACT--The Harbor Porpoise normally occurs in groups of 2 to 5 individuals.
Observation of a super pod of Pacific Harbor Porpoises (Phocoena phocoena vomerina) in the Salish Sea
345 near the harbor porpoise - Kuigatsi and Kuigatsi - Soontaga sections reconstruction of the main projects concerned with the conditions according to the tender documents.
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A juvenile male harbor porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) [approximately equal to] 10.
Norovirus infection in harbor porpoises
Abstract--Abundance of harbor porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) was estimated from data collected during vessel surveys conducted throughout the inland waters of Southeast Alaska.
Temporal changes in abundance of harbor porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) inhabiting the inland waters of Southeast Alaska
Two marine mammal species that live there year-round are the beluga whale, Delphinapterus leucas, and the harbor porpoise, Phocoena phocoena.
Acoustic monitoring and prey association for beluga whale, Delphinapterus leucas, and harbor porpoise, Phocoena phocoena, off two river mouths in Yakutat Bay, Alaska
On February 10, 2012, the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Maine CDC) was notified of a positive Brucella culture from a harbor porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) found on the coast of southern Maine.
Human exposures to marine Brucella isolated from a harbor porpoise--Maine, 2012
The objective of this study was to determine whether the risk of mortality from infectious disease in harbor porpoise in U.
The risk of infection from polychlorinated biphenyl exposure in the harbor porpoise (Phocoena phocoena): a case-control approach
In one case, witnesses report a group of bottlenoses ramming a sole harbor porpoise with their heads and long snouts, sending it flying into the air.
Dolphins: Flipper or Killer?
The harbor porpoise, Phocoena phocoena, is among the smallest of the six porpoise species in the Family Phocoenidae, with an adult length of 1.
Harbor Porpoise, Phocoena phocoena vomerina, in Cook Inlet, Alaska
Sightings of harbor porpoise during a beluga whale (Phocoena phocoena) survey in 1998 (1355 km) provided data on harbor porpoise abundance in Cook Inlet for the Gulf of Alaska stock.
Abundance of harbor porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) in three Alaskan regions, corrected for observer errors due to perception bias and species misidentification, and corrected for animals submerged from view
A pregnant, dead, stranded, harbor porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) was reported on February 22, 2007, on western Whidbey Island, in Puget Sound, Washington State (48.
Maternal-fetal transmission of Cryptococcus gattii in harbor porpoise
The thirteen sightings included Pacific white-sided dolphins; Dall's porpoise; killer whales; Risso's dolphins, Grampus griseus; northern right whale dolphins, Lissodelphis borealis; and harbor porpoise, Phocoena phocoena (Table 3).
Forty years of winter: cetaceans observed during the southbound migration of gray whales, Eschrichtius robustus, near Granite Canyon, central California

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